Converting ASCII text to Unicode with formatting [closed]

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Is there a free tool under linux system, for converting ascii text to unicode by keeping original text formatting ?

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iconv can convert between different encodings, if that's what you mean.

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Sure, it's called cat:

cat myasciifile > myunicodefile

Now myunicodefile consists of unicode codepoints, encoded in the popular UTF8 encoding. Note that this assumes that myasciifile consists only of legal ASCII characters (i.e. in the range 0-127).

An alternative to this is cp.